{"id":45277,"date":"2014-06-23T13:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45277"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:58:58","slug":"go-forth-and-be-pc-badgerers-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45277","title":{"rendered":"Go Forth And Be PC Badgerers Of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA)
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Disgusted Congregant
\nRe:\u00a0 Amen<\/p>\n

Dear PCUSA,<\/p>\n

I’ve been a Presbyterian my entire adult life, And as a practical matter, that’s meant “PCUSA”, by far the largest organization of this rather small denomination.<\/p>\n

And I’ll stay Presbyterian, because on theological matters, I believe the Presbyterian liturgy puts the least BS between man and understanding God.\u00a0 And as an American who believes in representative, constitutional democracy, I believe we owe a debt to the Knoxian revolutionaries who had a disproportionally large role in founding not only this nation, but our nation’s system of governnment in its purest form.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the PCUSA General Assembly’s canoodling with political correctness – endless pointless, mindless debates about fripperies like gay marriage and divestment from Israel <\/a>– as the denomination erodes, fast, have eroded my faith, not in the core of the liturgy that descended from Knox, but the politically-correct bobbleheads that have hijacked the PCUSA’s temporal governance.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

These repeated diversions into temporal political correctness give onlookers the impression that the PCUSA – and Presbyterians in general – are spending their time trying to build a deeper relationship with the lords of temporal political correctness.\u00a0 And although the General Assembly vote on the Israel divestment was close (310-303), reflecting the fact that many, many congregations don’t share the General Assembly’s passion for PC, at all too many PCUSA churches, especially in the major metro areas, it’s not an invalid impression.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So I’ll be leaving the PCUSA behind, and moving to one of your less BS-clogged breakaways – the Presbyterian Church in America, or the Orthodox Presbyterian Church – once and for all.<\/p>\n

I hope you come around someday.\u00a0 But I’m done hoping.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

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To:\u00a0 The Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA) From: Mitch Berg, Disgusted Congregant Re:\u00a0 Amen Dear PCUSA, I’ve been a Presbyterian my entire adult life, And as a practical matter, that’s meant “PCUSA”, by far the largest organization of this rather small denomination. And I’ll stay Presbyterian, because on theological matters, I believe the Presbyterian liturgy puts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-45277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45282,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45277\/revisions\/45282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}